3clane Family Foundation Inc.

3Clane Family Foundation is a small, unstaffed, family-governed vehicle — President Charles B Pyke Jr and Vice Presidents Charles B Pyke III and Lane N Pyke draw zero compensation across every filed year, confirming this is personal philanthropy rather than an institutional grantmaker with program officers. Founded in 2013 in Stockbridge, GA, its stated vision is to see "numerous lives changed by the Gospel globally," delivered through three declared lanes: Making Disciples (Gospel teaching and spiritual relationship-building), Service Through Sports (Christian athletics ministry), and Christian Education (biblical studies, theology, church history). Applicants — organizations or individuals — must affirm the foundation's evangelical Statement of Faith (Scripture's authority, the Trinity, Christ's deity and resurrection, salvation) and sit for a Board of Directors interview; this is not a check-the-box online portal but a face-to-face vetting process with a three-person family board. The grantee history strongly suggests the foundation favors partners with a pre-existing personal or institutional tie to the Pyke family: Milligan University and Milligan College (a Christian institution in Tennessee) together received $507,080 across six gifts — nearly half of all tracked giving — plus a related $54,000 to Emmanuel Christian Seminary, pointing to an alumni or trustee relationship rather than a cold-application win. Sports ministry giving (Athletes in Action / The Cru Foundation, $108,325 combined) and a cluster of Georgia congregations (Life Church, East Point Church, East Point Church of Christ, First Baptist McDonough) round out the pattern: national flagship partners plus hyper-local Stockbridge/Atlanta-area churches. First-time applicants should expect a modest opening gift — the median tracked grant is just $2,100 — with the six-figure awards reserved for multi-year, trust-built relationships (Milligan and Truth In Nature each received 4-5 separate grants before or alongside their largest gifts). Grant recipients must submit an annual report on fund use, reinforcing that this board expects ongoing accountability, not a one-time transaction. Because there is no dedicated grants staff, cycle, or published deadline, patience and a genuine, demonstrable theological and relational fit matter far more here than proposal polish.

Across 67 tracked grants totaling $1,077,897, the average award is $16,088, but that figure is misleading — the distribution is heavily skewed. The foundation's own typical-grant-size data (n=8 largest awards) puts the median at just $2,100 against an average of $32,759 and a range of $75 to $233,000, confirming a long tail of small gifts beneath a handful of large ones. The top three recipients alone — Milligan University ($274,080/5 grants), Truth In Nature ($255,500/4 grants), and Milligan College ($233,000/1 grant, tied to "the John Robert Neely Jr" fund) — account for $762,580, or 71% of all tracked dollars. Everything below that drops off sharply: The Cru Foundation/Athletes in Action ($108,325 combined across 8 grants), Emmanuel Christian Seminary ($54,000/1 grant), Life Church ($47,925/3 grants), then a long list of $100-$18,000 gifts to churches, camps, and mission organizations (Latin Impact Ministries, Reach Village, Launch Global, Squirrel Hollow, New Life Ranch, Compassion International, Hillsdale College). Geographically, Georgia dominates with 23 of 67 grants (34%), followed by Florida (13), Tennessee (7), Texas (6), DC (5), North Carolina (4), Oklahoma (4), Ohio (3), and one each in Colorado and Illinois — closely matching the foundation's self-reported focus states (FL, TN, GA, TX, NC). Financially, the foundation has grown dramatically: total assets rose from $115,584 in FY2014 to $5,272,647 in FY2023, a roughly 45x increase, driven largely by a $2,535,938 contribution inflow in FY2021 (total revenue that year hit $3,230,597, including $693,444 in net investment income). Grants paid have fluctuated rather than tracked that asset growth linearly: $25,000 (2014) → $45,000 (2015) → $322,700 (2019, the peak year in this dataset) → $262,075 (2020) → $157,571 (2021, a dip even as assets surged, consistent with a large contribution being absorbed rather than immediately distributed) → $212,086 (2022) → $234,079 (2023). No FY2024 or FY2025 filing data was available in this dataset. Officer compensation is $0 in every filed year, so essentially all disbursed funds reach grantees with no administrative drag.

3Clane is tagged under the IRS "Health" NTEE category (code F03, typically Mental Health/Crisis Intervention) in this dataset, but its actual mission, programs, and full grantee history are exclusively Christian ministry, education, and sports-ministry focused — the classification appears to be a data artifact, not a reflection of real-world funding activity, so grant seekers should not rely on NTEE code alone to identify this funder. The peer set below is drawn from foundations of similar asset size sharing that same nominal Health classification:

3Clane sits comfortably mid-pack on asset size within this peer group ($4.48M-$5.87M range) but is the clear outlier on mission: none of the other five foundations appear to be faith-based grantmakers, so this comparison set is useful mainly for benchmarking asset scale and payout capacity, not program fit. Grant seekers researching 3Clane should instead benchmark against other small, family-run Christian foundations in the Southeast rather than this asset-matched but mission-mismatched peer list. 3Clane's application model — a personal board interview plus a doctrinal Statement of Faith requirement — is also more high-touch than what's typically seen at foundations of this size, most of which run simple LOI or online-only intake.

No news coverage, press releases, or third-party reporting on 3Clane Family Foundation was found for 2025 or 2026 in web search results — searches for grants awarded, funding priorities, and general announcements returned only nonprofit-database listing pages (Candid, Grantable, Instrumentl, Charity Navigator, getholdings.com) rather than original reporting. The foundation's own website shows limited active content maintenance: its two narrative/story pages, "Impacting Change in Delhi" and "Farmers Making a Difference," still contain unreplaced Lorem Ipsum placeholder text rather than real program updates, and one search snippet dated the most recently touched page (the grant application page) to April 16, 2026, suggesting the site receives only sporadic upkeep. Leadership has been stable and unchanged across every filing year captured in this dataset (2014-2023): Charles B Pyke Jr as President, with Charles B Pyke III and Lane N Pyke as Vice Presidents — no new officers, no staff hires, and no compensation changes. The most consequential recent-era event visible in the financial data is not a program announcement but a capital event: a $2,535,938 contribution received in FY2021 that nearly quadrupled the foundation's asset base within two years (from $1.28M in FY2020 to $5.27M by FY2023), which grant seekers should read as evidence of increased future giving capacity even though grant payouts have not yet scaled proportionally to that asset growth. Absent public communications from the foundation, applicants are best served treating the interview process itself as the primary channel for learning about current-year priorities.

Because 3Clane has no grants staff, published deadline, or visible RFP cycle, treat this as a relationship-first funder rather than a competitive proposal process. Start at https://3clane.org/apply/ or email contact@3clane.org / call (770) 507-2500 — the online form did not fully render via automated tools, so plan to complete it directly in a browser and follow up personally if you don't hear back. Every applicant must affirm the foundation's Statement of Faith (an explicitly evangelical doctrinal statement: Scripture's authority, the Trinity, Christ's deity and resurrection, salvation through the Holy Spirit) before proceeding — do not apply if your organization cannot authentically make that affirmation, since misalignment here is a hard disqualifier, not a soft preference. Expect to be interviewed directly by the three-person Pyke family board (Charles B Pyke Jr, Charles B Pyke III, Lane N Pyke); come prepared to speak in personal, mission-driven language about how your work advances discipleship, Christian sports ministry, or Christian education specifically — generic impact metrics will land less well here than a clear articulation of spiritual fruit and theological alignment. Size your first ask conservatively: the historical median grant is $2,100, and even mid-tier recurring partners (Cru/Athletes in Action, Life Church) received grants in the $1,000-$20,000 range per gift. Reserve six-figure expectations for organizations that can point to years of track record — 3Clane's largest gifts (Milligan University, Truth In Nature, Milligan College) all followed multiple prior smaller grants or came through what appears to be a personal institutional tie (likely a Pyke family connection to Milligan). Georgia-based, and especially Stockbridge/metro-Atlanta, organizations have a practical edge given 34% of all tracked grants stayed in-state and an in-person board interview is part of the process. If awarded, budget staff time for the required annual report on fund use and program activity — this board appears to value ongoing accountability and relationship maintenance over one-time transactional giving. A common mistake to avoid: leading with program budget size or organizational prestige rather than mission and doctrinal fit — this is a values-first funder before it is a capacity-first funder.